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Cheryl Lynn Senyk
Cheryl Lynn Senyk of Southampton died at Stony Brook University Medical Center on Friday, April 22. She was 65.
Ms. Senyk was born on September 29, 1945, in Jamaica, Queens, to Lucille Catherine Thomas and Anthony Rosalia. She was raised in Smithtown with her brothers and sister and enjoyed studying ballet and loved photography. Later in life she would put her interest in photography to use as a freelance photographer for the bilingual newspaper, El Mensajero.
As a very young girl she already exhibited a profound interest in serving God. On April 25, 1959, she was baptized as a Jehovah’s Witness at the Spring Assembly in West Hempstead. Ms. Senyk regularly served in door-to-door preaching work and conducted many Bible studies.
In 1969, at a dinner party in Smithtown she met John Curtis Senyk and on April 18, 1970, they were married at the Huntington Town House. Mr. Senyk cared for her devotedly during a three-year illness and was at her side when she died on April 22.
She will be sorely missed by all those who knew her and her work on the East End, survivors said.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by siblings, Lorinda C. Casola, Anthony T. R. Rosalia and David J. Rosalia; a brother-in-law, Robert F. Casola; an aunt, Joyce Thomas Kulick; nephews, nieces and grandnephews; many cousins.
A memorial service was held on Monday, April 25, at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on Scuttlehole Road in Water Mill. Interment followed at Southampton Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton.
on Apr 26, 2011